The RSPB wants residents and companies in London to help stop the decline in the numbers of swifts in the City. Every summer, London awakes to the call of screaming swifts returning to their birthplaces from wintering grounds south of the Sahara. Each year we record fewer and fewer. The RSPB, working with a number of partners, is now urging Londoners to step-up … [Read more...] about Charity asks for swift help
Future Generations
Stories from the fells-The Cumbria Landscape Story
Cumbria Wildlife Trust is looking for people to help tell the story of the Lake District's high fells and bring alive the history of the iconic landscape and its wildlife. The Trust is exploring the changes to our landscape through the High Fells. The Cumbria Landscape Story project will be recording the memories of those of people who have lived and worked in the … [Read more...] about Stories from the fells-The Cumbria Landscape Story
High Fell – The Cumbria Landscape Story
A wildlife trust in Cumbria has secured lottery money to enable it to record memories of the Lakeland fells. Cumbria Wildlife Trust has secured funding from The Heritage Lottery Fund for its latest project, High Fell - The Cumbria Landscape Story. The oral history project will record memories of how the fells have changed since World War Two. Memories and stories … [Read more...] about High Fell – The Cumbria Landscape Story
Grant for butterfly scheme
Britain’s most threatened butterfly is being offered a helping hand to recovery in the Morecambe Bay and South Cumbria area, thanks to a grant boost from the Forestry Commission’s English Woodland Grant Scheme. The Morecambe Bay limestone area and the South Cumbria low fells are the last national stronghold for the High Brown Fritillary butterfly and the single most … [Read more...] about Grant for butterfly scheme